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18 I Some preliminaries<br />

same way. For us it is a two-pronged branch ofli nguistics: (i) a research framework<br />

for studying the relationships between lexical, constructional, and grammatical material<br />

in language, diachronically and synchronically, both in particular languages<br />

and cross-linguistically, and (ii) a term referring to the change whereby lexical<br />

items and constructions come in certain linguistic contexts to serve grammatical<br />

fu nctions and, once grammaticalized, continue to develop new grammatical<br />

functions.<br />

The bibliography of monographs, edited collections, and journal articles that<br />

adopt some aspect of grammaticalization as a given is now so extensive as to<br />

preclude anything like an exhaustive account of it. In the next chapter we will<br />

present an outline of the history of grammaticalization and a survey of some<br />

recent work, especially as it pertains to the rest of this book.

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